Imprisoned revolutionaries fight Stalinist rule in USSR in 1950s

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
1928 protest at exile colony in Siberia, Russia. Center banner with portraits of V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky says, “Long live dictatorship of proletariat.” Fight against Stalinist bureaucracy was to reestablish proletarian internationalism of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution under Lenin.

Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. It contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union, from the late 1920s to the 1970s, challenging the anti-working-class Stalinist regime and its repression.…


How Cuba’s working people made a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
Rally in Havana in 1960 backs revolutionary government’s nationalization of imperialist- owned properties in Cuba. Workers mobilized to “intervene” to gain control of factories, part of Cuban toilers acquiring class consciousness, making socialist revolution their own.

Below is an excerpt from a March 26, 1962, speech by Fidel Castro, the central leader of the Cuban Revolution. In it Castro discusses how Cuba’s workers and peasants were won through the series of revolutionary mobilizations and struggles to…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

October 21, 1996 TORONTO — The last of the 26,000 General Motors Corp. unionized workers in Canada walked off their jobs the evening of October 9. With Canadian Auto Workers members now walking the picket lines at plants in Woodstock,…


Texas ExxonMobil strikers are fighting for all oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…



Build solidarity with Kellogg strike!

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Oct. 6. Join me in getting out the word about, and building solidarity with, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members on strike at Kellogg’s…


Quebec: Thousands of child care workers begin series of strikes

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021

MONTREAL — Eleven thousand workers at 7,000 child care centers (CPEs) across Quebec carried out the first of 10 one-day strikes Sept. 24. They are demanding the Quebec government agree to a 20% wage increase over four years to bring…


Kaiser Operating Engineers strike 24 hospitals in California

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Sept. 22 picket at Kaiser hospital in Oakland, California, one of 24 where operating engineers are on strike. This fight “is bringing our crew together,” said striker Michael Salas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The 700 members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 are on strike at 24 Kaiser hospitals across Northern California. “We have been on the front-lines in these hospitals throughout the pandemic,” striker Jose Banta…


Military barbers strike after bosses raise prices but not pay

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021

Since July 4, workers at four barbershops at Ft. Lee U.S. Army Garrison and Ft. Pickett Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center in central Virginia have been picketing outside Ft. Lee. The 20 barbers, members of Laborers International Union Local…


Kentucky distillery strike wins widespread support

Workers fight shifts that wreak havoc with family life
Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021
Strikers and supporters picket Heaven Hill bourbon plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, Sept. 11.

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 400 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D have been on strike fighting contract attacks by the bosses at bourbon maker Heaven Hill distillery here since Sept. 11. Strikers’ picket signs saying, “Family-owned not…